matlab remove only top and right ticks with leaving box on

18
votes

In Matlab figure, I would like to remove ticks only from the top and right axes with keeping the plot box on.

I know if I make the plot box off, the ticks on the top and right go away. But, this is not what I want. In other words, I want to keep ticks only at the bottom and left and, at the same time, want to keep the plot box on.

2
matlabplot
This one of those things that you simply can't do nicely. You have to resort to trickery. If you are trying to get two axes on one another with linked x-axis and two separate y-axes on both sides, the easiest approach is to set both axes to box off. Then move x-axe of second axes to the top, remove tick and axis labels and it will nicely close the image. – j_kubik
That worked. Thanks! I couldn't edit the code nicely here, but I put the code below. figure lw = 2; x=0:5:10; plot(x,x) a1 = gca; set(a1,'box','off','tickdir','out','xticklabel',{},'yticklabel',{},... 'linewidth',lw,'Xtick',[0:5:10],'ytick',[0:5:10]) axis square a2 = copyobj(a1,gcf); set(a2,'color','none','xaxislocation','top','yaxislocation','right','xtick',[],'ytick',[]) – Daisuke Takeshita

2 Answers

12
votes

My workaround similar to @j_kubik proposition:

plot(1:10)
% get handle to current axes
a = gca;
% set box property to off and remove background color
set(a,'box','off','color','none')
% create new, empty axes with box but without ticks
b = axes('Position',get(a,'Position'),'box','on','xtick',[],'ytick',[]);
% set original axes as active
axes(a)
% link axes in case of zooming
linkaxes([a b])
0
votes

You can use box off to remove the ticks and then draw the box back using plot. For example:

figure
hold on
box off
plot(1:10)
plot([1,10],[10, 10],'k')
plot([10,10],[1,10],'k')